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Перевод: asperity

[существительное]
грубость ; жесткость ; резкость ; суровость ; строгость ; трудности ; лишения ; неровность ; шероховатость

Тезаурус:

1. "Of course you wouldn't know, would you," Charlotte said with asperity.
2. "Thank you," said Sam with some asperity.
3. "I didn't count it, you know," Carter said with asperity.
4. Actually the Voice is Gandalf's, as we might have guessed from its asperity, and as is anyway confirmed at II, 99: it may seem fair enough to let a wizard oppose a necromancer.
5. He felt he had wasted enough time on the editor, and replied with asperity: "How should I know?
6. Ellen, who was perversely proud of her skills in the salad department, asked Rickie with just a touch of asperity.
7. And he had a notorious asperity for which he was afterwards sometimes penitent.
8. Still, the second edition of The Lord of the Rings cuts out some minor, but convincing, asperity on the part of a strained Aragorn; it seemed too tough.
9. "The truth is," he admitted to Alan Griffiths, "I have a constant temptation to over asperity even when there is no subjective anger to prompt me: it comes, I think, from the pleasure of using the English language forcibly - i.e. it is not a species of Ira but of Superbia.
10. "He'll help you, idiot," Nutty said, her asperity prompted by her own very reasonable doubt.
11. Tobie resumed with sudden asperity.
12. Nutty spoke with some asperity, not encouraged by the marked lack of enthusiasm her team was displaying.
13. Christopher did his bit by cramming about a dozen in his car, then, having dumped them, said to Jane with some asperity:.